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Vacation
Chapter 2
The Longest Day Part 1
Vegeta called the repairmen and an appliance store, ordering a nice big new electric range and a cleaning outfit before they left for breakfast. He would just stay out of the house all day till all the work was done. By the time they were actually finished eating it was 10 am. Of course the boys were bouncing off the walls and ready for an adventure for the day. Vegeta rubbed his temples; his head was starting to ache.
"Okay, so what would you brats like to do today?" Vegeta asked for the fourth time, since no one was listening to him.
Trunks, Marron, and Goten ran in circles around his legs laughing and giggling. Vegeta growled and his temper flashed as he suddenly powered up to super Saiyan to get their attention. The kids stopped in their tracks.
Piccolo asked again. "Now, Vegeta has been nice and asked you several times what you want to do today. You be grateful and give him a polite answer."
They all waved their hands in the air shouting "Fun Town, Fun Town!" Then they resumed running in circles after each other.
Vegeta powered down and looked at Piccolo. "By the end of the week I will be dead."
Piccolo raised a brow ridge at him, "Why is that?"
"Because I'm going to shoot myself." He answered sarcastically. His eye twitched.
Piccolo just chuckled quietly. "You'll survive, baby." He leaned over and whispered into his ear while no one else was watching.
Gohan and Mirai grabbed their little brothers and put them on their shoulders ending the eternal game of chase. "Hey, you want us to give you a ride?" Gohan asked.
"YEAH!" they both chimed in together.
"Can I ride on your shoulders Mr. Piccolo?" Marron asked timidly.
Piccolo looked down at her and gave her a fangy smile that would have frightened most normal kids. "Sure, why not." He picked her up with one hand and sat her on his shoulders; then he looked at Vegeta. "You up for it Vegeta?"
He looked at the tall green man beside him and smiled. "If it will burn off some of their energy at this point I'll do anything." He lifted himself slightly into the air. "Alright brats, Fun Town it is." They all lifted and flew up into the air.
Mirai and Gohan grabbed Goten and Trunks by the feet so they wouldn't fall off their shoulders and sped up going into barrel rolls making the younger kids shout and squeal urging them to go faster. The race was on as they swept up and down in a roller coaster styled race through the clouds.
Marron frowned feeling left out. Piccolo sensed the disappointment from the little girl. "You want to show them up Marron?" He asked her with a smile.
"Can we Mr. Piccolo?" She squeaked; smacking him in the back of the head with her small fists.
"Sure, we'll beat them at their own race." He smiled. "Hey Vegeta, pick it up Princy!" He issued the unspoken challenge and sped off after the kids who had a good head start.
Vegeta kept his own pace and let the others do as they wished. He was happy to have the peace and quiet of the sky to himself. Suddenly he felt another familiar kai creeping up from the south. He rolled his eyes and muttered under his breath, "Kakarot".
Goku flew up beside him and smiled at the older Saiyan. "Hey, Getea. Where's everyone headed for?"
He scowled wishing he would not have to take part in going, "Fun Town." He answered flatly.
"Oh wow! Mind if I tag along?" Goku asked with a wide grin.
"No, I don't. In fact since you're so interested, you can help keep an eye on the brats since two of them are yours." He looked over at the man who was once his rival and whom he now considered a close friend. It had taken years for their relationship to build to that level, but after the fight with Buu; they had grown close.
"Are they being any trouble?" Goku asked knowing how much mischief they could get into.
"So far, the young brats have managed to blow up the kitchen, Piccolo has obliterated a small table, and I am losing my mind. Other than that, everything is just great." Sarcasm dripped from his words.
Goku winced. "ehh… sounds like you could use some extra hands this week. I'll just stay at Capsule house if you don't mind being crowded a little more?"
"Why not? That way I can be driven insane that much faster and just get it over with." He replied to the younger Saiyan.
Goku chuckled. "Alright then. Maybe this way you and Piccolo can manage to have some time alone together too." He knew they had a thing for each other. Actually most of the Z Warriors did, but none said anything to the girls; they were very much a band of brothers now. Both Piccolo and Vegeta were princes, and they had simply each understood the other till it grew into more. However both were content to stay as they were with things; so, the others just elected not to say anything about. It was just an understood thing among them.
Vegeta smiled. "Gee Kakarot, your just too kind" He said in his characteristic sarcastic tone. Goku just laughed and shoved him as they flew. Vegeta shoved him back; which turned into a pushing shoving match in the air till they reached their destination.
Piccolo watched the sky for his love with a slightly worried expression. He knew Vegeta was starting to show outward signs of stress; he wasn't happy about it. Then he smiled and mumbled, "Goku." to himself. Goku was just what they needed to lighten tension and help look after the kids today. 'Hell' he thought to himself, 'Goku might as well be just a big kid himself''.
The only two pure blooded Saiyans left in the universe touched down in the middle of West City's district known as Fun Town. You may as well have read tourist trap instead. There were all sorts of crazy things to see and do here along the streets close to the ocean. Vegeta hated it and so did Piccolo. Both preferred quiet and solitude; Goku and the kids however loved it. It was the chance to do wild crazy things all in one place.
"DADDY!" Goten shouted and he ran over latching onto Goku's leg.
"Hi, son. Are you having fun with Trunks and Marron?" He asked scooping him up and sitting him on his arm as they began to walk.
"I sure am! Are you gonna stay here with us today?" the young boy smiled from ear to ear.
"Yep, and I will be staying at Capsule house for the rest of the week too" He smiled up at the young boy.
"YAY!" Goten shouted attracting the smiles of people who were passing by.
Goku looked at Gohan and Mirai, "Are you guys surviving the kids?" he chuckled.
Gohan smiled back at his dad, "Ah, they aren't so bad dad". He'd looked after his little brother while his father was dead for seven years.
"Good" He said and he let Goten back down so he could catch up with Marron and Trunks. Goku dropped back a little to walk with Vegeta and Piccolo. "Hey Piccolo."
Piccolo nodded at Goku and gave him what passed for a smile for the large Namek. "Goku."
"So, where are we taking them first?" Goku asked enthusiastically.
"Fuck if I know" Vegeta answered. "I'm just following them. When they want to do something they'll stop and let us know about it; besides, it's easier than trying to ask what they want to do". He rubbed his temples remembering what it was like earlier.
"Sounds like a good idea" Piccolo chuckled softly patting his back. "Just try and survive it for me."
At that moment all five kids, younger and older, stopped. Trunks ran back to his dad jumping and tugging on the hem of his shirt. "Dad, dad… can we do the mirror maze? Please, please, please?" He begged.
Vegeta looked at his young son, "Does everyone want to do it?" They all answered with smiles all around they did all want to go and walk the maze. Vegeta smiled "Okay, but on one condition."
"What?" they all asked eagerly.
"No one uses kai, to navigate the maze. If you want to do it, rely on your eyes, that way you can get some training in while you play." He smiled; maybe this wasn't such a bad idea after all. This way they would be forced to train at least for a little while today.
"Aww…" Trunks whined.
"Okay, we can all keep going and not go through the maze." Vegeta smiled down at his son.
"No, no… we can do it can't we." He looked at the other four.
Goten looked excited. "I bet I will be the first one through the maze!
They all ran up to the ticket lady who gave each of the kids a pair of gloves to put over their hands. Vegeta handed her his credit card; took it and went through her fake smile and spiel about what not to do before entering the maze. He ignored her looking back at Piccolo and Goku.
"This is a good idea Getea. The boys can get some training time in too." Goku said stating the obvious; which Vegeta had already said.
The kids disappeared in through the curtains into the maze. The woman handed the adults each a pair of gloves. Vegeta refused, since he was wearing his soft white leather gloves already.
"Oh, are we going in there too?" Goku asked putting them on at the same time as Piccolo.
"Well, do you want to leave our boys alone in there, Kakarot?" Vegeta asked as if Goku had worms for brains.
Goku stopped; he imagined all sorts of things they could do and then imagined the building blowing apart from it. "Good point." He slipped inside through the heavy curtains.
Vegeta looked at Piccolo and smiled as he walked into the dark maze lit only by small red Christmas type lights along the floor. He grasped Piccolo's hand as he too entered. Immediately, Vegeta had the feeling that he would end up regretting coming into the place at all. The illusion inside the place almost gave him a head ache. He watched as his son walked across one wall from both sides and disappear into himself in the middle.
Piccolo just said "wow" quietly and they started walking. Goku stepped out of a revolving door which seemed to just appear out of nowhere.
"It's hard to tell where you're going without using kai" he said as he walked past Piccolo and Vegeta.
Vegeta stopped and watched as six Kakarots all went different directions. 'Wow' he thought to himself. 'This is really freaky'; but he stuck to his own rules and opted to not use any form of energy detection. He looked over and Piccolo was gone. He felt a tinge of panic but quashed it and softly said his name. "Piccolo?" He hadn't realized it but up till then he had been relying on the Namek's senses to navigate the tangle of images the mirrors created. Now what was he going to do?
He walked down what appeared to be a hall and very shortly ran into a mirrored wall. His head bounced off of it. He took a step back and rubbed the spot on his forehead. Marron's giggling image ran across the mirror in front of him and disappeared. He spun around but she wasn't there. "This is like some kind of drugged out dream" he mumbled and started walking slowly touching mirrors here and there so he wouldn't run into them anymore.
Piccolo stopped realizing that Vegeta had not kept up with him. He wasn't using kai and so hadn't noticed when Vegeta stopped to watch the mirrors. He cursed himself under his breath "Damn, I hope he's alright." He knew the lights and illusions in the mirrors could make Vegeta's head hurt. He began to worry over the spit fire Saiyan Prince. He started to back trace his steps.
Mean time Mirai and Gohan found another curtain door. This time Gohan pulled it back. He sighed. "It's another false door." He said looking back at his best friend.
"That's the third once we've found." Mirai said a little disappointed. The teens were starting to get a little bored inside the maze. But at least they hadn't bumped into any mirrors yet. Their dad's had trained them well. "Shoot. I was hoping this one was the door out. At least then we could look through all of the candy before the little kids come out" he laughed. He had a bit of a sweet tooth.
"Yeah. If we're the first one's out, we can look in peace." Gohan agreed. They both loved their little brothers and Marron was a sweet little girl, but the three of them were a handful and they idolized the two teenage Demi-Saiyans and were always hanging on them. They walked further down the hall and found the revolving door again.
"Well" Mirai said, "We're back at the revolving door. Imagine that."
"Hey I see a hall we've been missing." Gohan pointed to a space as the door went around. "Let's try that way."
They both slipped out of the very small opening as the space in the door they were walking in passed it. They walked down a short hall that zigged and zagged a bit and found themselves at yet another curtained door.
Mirai looked at Gohan, "You try it this time" Gohan said.
"Here goes nothing" Mirai said as he pulled the curtain back revealing the candy shop outside the maze.
"ALRIGHT!" they both shouted and high fived each other.
"We're the first ones out too." Gohan said beaming. "Let's go pick out some candy before the kids come out and obliterate everything."
"Yeah" Mirai said looking at everything in the candy works, from the mix and match sour powders that you filled your own plastic tubes with, to the wall of gourmet jelly beans and gummi candies. The two teens wandered around looking at everything before they began choosing their sweets.
Goku was busy rounding up the three smaller children and trying to keep them together as they almost ran through the mess of mirrors. "Let's try and stick together, okay guys?"
"I'm gonna be the first one out, dad!" Goten smiled widely as he ran back and fourth down the hall past Goku.
"I don't know Goten, we've been in here for quite some time now." Goku said as he squinted his eyes. Suddenly it dawned on him how to find the way out. "Hey! Listen to me. All we have to do is watch for the places on the walls where we don't see a reflection. Those places are where we need to walk." He herded the three kids down a hall he noticed where none of them were being reflected.
Vegeta's head was pounding. He kept walking into the walls because of it. The damned red lights seemed to go off into eternity in some places. He'd lost Piccolo right off and he was paying for it. 'Curse Kakarot for making six reflections of himself. Hnn.. probably did it to look at himself in the mirror' He thought to himself. "Piccolo where are you?" he said aloud and then thought, 'I can't make it out of here without you.'
Piccolo's ears pricked up. Was that really Vegeta he just heard? "Vegeta, is that you?"
Vegeta smiled. "Piccolo?"
Piccolo breathed a silent sigh of relief; He found his Prince. "Yes, stay where you are. I'm coming to you." 'Screw this' he thought 'if I don't try to locate his kai, I could lose track of him again' He stretched out his senses and located his missing love.
"Vegeta" He called to him again.
"I'm here" He answered back.
Piccolo turned a corner and saw Vegeta sitting on the floor where he was. The green giant smiled at him and bent down to scoop him up into his arms. "I found you." He planted a kiss on the Prince's soft lips. "Don't scare me like that".
Vegeta was more than happy to be in Piccolo's big safe arms. "It's about time." He tried to sound irritated but failed miserably. The truth is he didn't know how much longer he could take this crazy fucked up place. He had a pounding headache and it was working on turning into a migraine. "Really though, I'm alright."
Piccolo put him back on his feet. "Okay then, what do you say we get outta this shit hole?" He chuckled still smiling at his lover.
"I was ready to get out of here twenty minutes ago." Vegeta sighed.
Piccolo took his hand in a tight but loving grip and led him straight out of the tangle of mirrors. Both men squinted their eyes as they stepped back out into the bright daylight. Gohan and Mirai clapped. "It's about time dad!" Mirai said teasingly.
"Yes well I just wanted everyone to have to wait on me while I took my time." Vegeta said in his usual sarcastic tone.
Mirai laughed, "Yeah right. If you say so." He smiled at his father not believing any of it for a second.
"Well by the looks of it none of you have wasted any time choosing which sweets you wanted." He chuckled looking at the five piles sitting on the counter. He paid the woman at the counter for them. The kids each grabbed their piles with a gleeful expression.
Marron smiled the biggest and gave Vegeta a very heartfelt thank you. "Thank you so very much for the candies, Prince Vegeta."
Vegeta didn't really know how to respond to the little girl who had actually given him his rightful title. "You're very welcome, Marron. Just don't eat all of that at once."
Goten and Gohan stopped walking and both turned around to look at the Saiyan Prince. He was actually their real prince. Hearing Marron say it made them realize that the grouchy man they always took for granted was in fact royalty; though he didn't act like any Earth born Royalty. They both looked at one another suddenly feeling a bit of pride after everything he and their own father had done for the Earth. They gave him a sweeping bow in unison and said, "Thank you, Vegeta, Prince of all Saiyans." Gohan said.
Not being out done, his own children one from an alternate future and his eight year old from this universe went down on one knee in front of him. "Thank you father for everything you have done for us." Mirai said swelling with pride.
Gohan and Goten Followed suit dropping to one knee before the flabbergasted prince. Piccolo stopped and stared with his jaw dropped. They had finally chosen to acknowledge him as their prince out in the open in the middle of a public space. Goku smiled at his boys and walked over to stand behind the boys who had formed a sort of semi circle around Vegeta. He looked at Vegeta, who along with Krillin was his best friend in the world and gave him the huge smile he was known for. "Vegeta, at first you and I were enemies; but now you are my best friend. And more than that, you and I are the last of our kind."
"Yes, yes Kakarot, we all know this, Clown. Stop what you are doing; people are beginning to stare at us." Vegeta told them. No one moved. They all stayed where they were, except Goku who stepped through the half circle of Demi-Saiyans. Vegeta's mind flew; for so long he'd wanted them to acknowledge him as their true and rightful prince, but he didn't expect it here and certainly not now.
Goku dropped to one knee in front of his friend. "Vegeta, as the last full blooded Saiyan in the universe, I recognize you as my best friend AND my Prince." He looked down at the sidewalk.
Vegeta stood perfectly still. He was too dumbstruck by the whole thing he shook his head finally and mumbled quietly "It's about time. I accept your acknowledgement."
Piccolo beamed. He never thought he'd see the day. All of them had finally given the Saiyan the respect he knew the prince had always wanted from them. They had given it to him not because they were forced to do so, nor because they felt obligated to do so. They had done so, because in their eyes the Prince had earned the right to be acknowledged as such.
"Well get up you idiots, you're making fools of yourselves." Vegeta said with just a hint of blush in his cheeks; embarrassed they had put a spotlight on him.
They all five stood up and smiled grandly at their Prince; before the younger kids started shouting to go to the moving motion picture theater. Vegeta moaned. "I guess we have no choice since everyone wants to go." So they all headed off down the street a few blocks to the small theater. Trunks and Mirai hung back to walk with their dad and Piccolo's pace quickened to catch up with Goku giving Vegeta some space with his sons.
"I'm proud of you boys. I don't say it often, but I am proud of both of you." He said walking along with one on either side of him.
"No dad. We are proud of you." Mirai said; and he meant it too.
The younger Trunks held his dad's hand as he walked. "Yeah, I'm super glad and proud you're my dad. You can destroy and beat anything!" He was beaming.
Vegeta chuckled, "I wish that were true, son. Kakarot is the real hero there." He said smiling at his big goofy friend. Yes, he did count the clown as his best friend. He laughed quietly to himself at that; once all he wanted to do was kill him.
As they walked Trunks looked up at his dad and said, "I bet Grandpa Vegeta would be proud of you, Dad. You helped save the universe."
"Trunks, I think Grandpa Vegeta would be very proud of his grandsons." Vegeta smiled at both of them. "You're both brave and fearless."
All three smiled as they walked on in silence together side by side. Vegeta was filled with pride and a single unnoticed tear slid down his cheek. They reached the tiny theater and Vegeta walked up to the window. "Eight for the next showing." He paid the too young looking boy and took the stack of tickets he was handed. He gave one to each of the kids and also gave one to Goku and Piccolo. They all walked inside and stood in line waiting for the doors to open. The three younger kids attacked the stretched coin machine, begging coins for it from both Mirai and Gohan who emptied their pockets of every coin they had for them laughing as they did. "You three are like vultures." Mirai teased rubbing his little brother's head.
The doors to the theater room opened and they all walked in. All five kids ran to the middle row and sat down in the center. Vegeta, Goku, and Piccolo moved to the top row. Piccolo sat down to Vegeta's right and Goku sat to his left. "I've never been to one of these things" Goku said, "What's it like?"
Vegeta answered him, "You sit in this seat and they show a stupid film that is supposed to make you feel like you're a part of it because the stupid seats jerk you around."
"Oh, well okay" Goku said optimistically as he put his 3D glasses on as well.
The lady came in and made sure they were all buckled into the seats and then asked if they were ready for the film. The kids shouted yeses to her and she set the computer to play as the lights went out.
The first film opened with a sledding scene. The seats tossed them from side to side as a snowball edged up and bumped the screen. Vegeta rolled his eyes, 'This is just fucking idiotic. It makes no sense at all and it's giving me a headache. It figures the kids would want to do this shit.' He thought to himself.
He glanced to the side at Piccolo. Then he gave a closer look at the massive green skinned warrior. He was visibly sweating and looked a pale green in the face. 'Is he alright?' he wondered. 'He looks like he's getting sick.' Vegeta ignored the rest of the stupid little film and watched his secret lover closely. "Are you alright?" he whispered.
"I need to leave this thing, it's making me sick." Piccolo answered in a low voice.
"You want me to have them stop the film?" Vegeta asked him concern flickered in his eyes.
"No" He replied. "Don't spoil it for the kids" he didn't want them to be disappointed.
"The brats can handle it" Vegeta whispered back.
At that point the film stopped and the lights came back on. The woman came back in and asked if they were ready for the second film.
"No we are not" Vegeta surprised her with his response. He stood up, "He and I are leaving." He gestured to the Namekian. "Kakarot, you watch the brats."
"Of course, Vegeta. You okay Piccolo?" He asked looking at his friend.
"Yeah, I'm fine." He wasn't about to ruin the fun of the group of kids in front of them.
"Are you sure you're alright, Mr. Piccolo?" Marron asked in her quiet little voice. She liked the big green man, most of the time she thought he was funny.
"I'm okay kids, you have fun looking at the next film and listen to Goku, okay?" He reassured her.
"Okay, Mr. Piccolo." Goten and Trunks said together. They all watched as he and Vegeta left the theater room; then turned when the woman asked if they were ready for the next film short.
Vegeta and Piccolo exited the doors back into the small theater lobby. Vegeta turned and looked at the other man with concern all over his face. "All right, truth," the statement bordered on a coming demand, "What is going on Namekian?"
"I guess it's motion sickness from being jerked and tossed around in there." He replied leaning against a wall with his head looking down; beads of sweat could still be seen on his neck and beneath the ball cap he was wearing backwards.
Vegeta took him by the hand and led him out the door to an outside bench where they both sat down. "Here, the fresh air should help" he said to his massive green lover.
They sat there with Piccolo leaning against Vegeta, who draped an arm around him, for the time it took for the stupid film to end attracting a few stares; not many people had seen a giant green man before. They had never seen so many strange people pass by either; in their eyes different was good. Piccolo sat up when the kids burst through the doors all jabbering about the thing.
"Dad! That was awesome!" Trunks said running around in front of Vegeta.
"I'm glad you had fun, boy." He smiled watching his son's excitement.
Goku swept Goten up and sat him on his shoulder. The little dark hair boy was smiling from ear to ear. "Thank you, Vegeta! That was a lot of fun."
"Yeah, thank you dad." Mirai said.
Everyone thanked him for being so nice. Piccolo scooped Marron up and placed her on his shoulder and Vegeta picked his own son up and put him on his shoulders and they started walking again. A group of women walked by and smiled talking among themselves. "I think it's just great when men take their children out." Another in the group replied. "Look at that little girl sitting on her daddy's shoulders. She looks so proud and doesn't even seem ashamed of his green skin either. She's so cute" Piccolo's jaw dropped and a lavender shade spread over his face when he heard what they said just as the other woman in their group. "I think they're all cute as a button, the little boys too" and they finally receded into the crowds on the said walk going the other direction.
Vegeta noticed Piccolo's expression. "Don't worry about what that old bat said. I happen to like green." He smiled at the Namekian Prince who smiled back.
"You're not so bad yourself hot stuff" He chuckled.
Vegeta just grinned and looked straight ahead. 'I like that green skin of his it's smooth and soft. Much nicer than any woman I've ever known. If only I'd have discovered him first.' He thought.
Trunks started bucking on his shoulders "Dad, Dad!... Look! A haunted house adventure!" He leaned down shouting into his dad's ear.
Vegeta and the others stopped walking. "Boy, stop yelling in my ear!" he said putting Trunks back down on the side walk as Goku let Goten back down again.
"Sorry dad" Trunks whispered.
The young kids all looked up at the animated thing hanging from the rafter that taunted them urging them to buy tickets for the scare of their lives. Vegeta rolled his eyes. "Oh grand a haunted house. Do you brats really want to do this thing?"
"Not me" Marron said quietly. "I don't like scary things." She laid her head down over the top of Piccolo's head and put her hands over the sides of her face.
Piccolo looked at Vegeta and said, "Why don't you and Goku take the boys through it and I'll stay out here with Marron. Besides, after the last thing I could use a bit of a rest."
"Alright, if you're willing to stay here with the little girl we'll go ahead and take the boys inside this idiotic ghost thing." He looked at their boys, "Okay, you brats want to go in this thing then?"
"YEAH!" all four said at once. Even Gohan and Mirai looked excited about it.
Vegeta walked up to the ticket man who was dressed as some kind of Halloween-ish thing. 'What is he supposed to be? A corpse?' Vegeta thought to himself. "Give us six tickets for this adventure thing."
The man tried to make a scary face for the sake of the kids and said, "It's the fright of your life… who knows if you'll ever come back"
Trunks looked up at the man and then he and Goten looked at each other before turning back to the rather silly looking man behind the counter. "My dad is the strongest fighter in the universe" Goten said beaming as Trunks also said "My dad is too!"
The man in the window blinked and said "Who knows what could happen in there, the ghosts may get hungry…"
Vegeta had grown tired of the man's ridiculous bantering and said, "Just give us the tickets please." He was trying to be polite; Bulma and Piccolo both got on to him about "Playing nice with the other kids" all the time; so he tolerated everyone's idiocy.
"Yes sir, here you go" He said handing him the tickets after they'd been paid for.
Vegeta handed one to each of them and then gave Trunks and Goten the stupid fiber optic light things the man at the counter talked him into getting for the young boys.
"This is cool dad." Trunks said waving it around like it was some kind of colorful sword.
Goten and Trunks both immediately began swinging the things at each other. The man who was to guide them into the house of horror, as he called it, came and explained the rules to them. No touching the people and they would not touch you, the only lights allowed were the fiber optic ones, like the children had, it would take approximately thirty minutes to fourty-five minutes to do the self guided tour of the haunted house adventure… blah, blah, blah… Vegeta rolled his eyes impatiently. 'I wish he would just shut his flapping mouth and get on with it. I'm getting hungry.' He thought to himself. He tapped Goku with his tail and asked quietly, "Kakarot, are you getting hungry too?" as if he didn't already know the answer.
"I'm always hungry, Vegeta, but I bet the kids are starving by now." He answered his best friend looking at their children.
"I was thinking the same thing. When we get done with this fucking bullshit we'll get something to eat and leave. I've had enough of this insane place." He stopped talking when he noticed the man dressed like a corpse was staring at him, or actually he was really staring at his tail. Vegeta frowned and wrapped it around his waist again. 'stupid human' he thought to himself, 'what you've never seen a tail before?'
They all stepped into the cart that took them up to the entrance of the building. Vegeta unwrapped his tail again twitching the tip of it from side to side like a cat does. He couldn't help it; his thoughts were beginning to dwell on food. His mouth was watering and his tail twitched involuntarily with his thoughts. They walked into the dark entrance lit only with black lights. Goku started to power up to make a little more light in the place before Vegeta turned to him and said in a tightly quiet tone of voice, "Kakarot, what are you doing? He said the only lights allowed are those things Trunks and Goten have!"
"Well gee, Vegeta, it's really dark in here and I can't see anything, including the kids" Goku said waving a hand in front of his face with a blank expression; the two pure blooded Saiyans could not see at all in the black light since their eyes did not absorb the purple-ish wave length.
"I know" Vegeta said looking in the direction of his friend's voice, "But we can't spoil it for the brats."
"Yeah, right" He chuckled nervously, "I wouldn't want them to be disappointed"
Gohan turned around and looked at his dad; he had sensed the momentary kai flare, and aksed, "You okay dad?"
"S-sure son. Heh, can you see at all in here?" Goku asked his oldest boy.
"Well, it's a little dim but I can see clear enough in the darkness. Why?"
"Uh, no reason just thought I would ask. You guys have fun, okay" Goku said looking off to the side of his son.
Gohan thought his dad was acting funny but turned back to Mirai and resumed the conversation he was having about a new video game. Goku turned to Vegeta and whispered, "You can't see anything either can you Vegeta."
"No, not a thing except the sparkles from those stupid toy lights." He said irritably as they began to walk.
He touched the wall with his tail as they walked. Goku swung his tail wildly in the dark black, rather like a cane for the blind. He also latched onto Vegeta's shoulder. "What are you doing, you idiot?" Vegeta tried to yell at the same time as keeping his voice down.
"Well, you're the Prince and you seem to know where you're going." He answered.
"Ow, you're gripping my shoulder too hard you imbecile!" Vegeta said still trying to keep his voice down. "And what happened to the kids, I can't see those things they had anymore."
"I don't know. I lost track of them after I spoke to Gohan." He answered gripping the Princes shoulder a little tighter.
They walked further till Vegeta tripped on a short flight of steps. Goku fell on top of him. "Ow! Get off of me you overgrown clown!" Vegeta shoved Goku off making him land next to him with a loud thud.
"I can't help it, Vegeta. You're the one who stopped all of a sudden." Goku protested.
Both of their ears pricked; someone was coming close then a woman's voice spoke in a fake-ish spooky tone "Are you two alright?" She asked the two grown men who'd fallen on the stairs.
"Of course we are do we look like we're not?" Vegeta replied in a grouchy voice.
She answered back in her silly ghost like voice "Up the stairs and to the right you'll find something quite a fright… the undertaker."
"The undertaker?" Goku asked
The woman wailed like a banshee. "The undertaker takes those who have died to their grave"
"But I thought King Yema did that?" Goku looked in the direction of her voice "I'm Goku. Who are you?" he asked smiling blindly.
"I am the ghost of Mary Ogle" She wailed again.
"Stop making friends with the props, Kakarot!" Vegeta scowled "How do we get out of this place?" The Prince demanded.
"Go up the stairs and to the right you'll find something quite a fright… the undertaker." She repeated her lines.
Vegeta grabbed Goku by the arm, "Come on Kakarot. We aren't getting anywhere standing here talking to her." He stomped up the stairs.
He turned to the right, like the stupid woman said to do, dragging his tail along the wall as he went. Eventually they came to a door at the end of the black hall. He had to push the door hard to get it to open. Inside a man dressed up like an undertaker with a bloody apron on was messing with a prop dummy on a long table. It had fake guts spilling out of it.
"Please come in and close the door behind you" He cackled as he started into his lines.
Vegeta and Goku both turned in the direction of the voice but neither one could see anything yet. It was like being in a dark black cave for them. Goku slammed the door remembering how hard it was to open. As soon as he did it Vegeta let out a howling screech, the sound a cat makes when its tail is stepped on, as Goku slammed the door on it. He instinctively fired a blast at the door; which sent everyone in the building running in every direction. Goku seized kai and powered up to super Saiyan ready to defend the Prince against whatever had attacked him. Vegeta let out another cat like screech as a splinter impaled his poor tail. The undertaker man screamed and ran from the room thinking there were real ghosts in the house tonight. Goku threw another Kai blast towards the door where Vegeta was screeching. They could both see again in the light that Goku was giving off. Vegeta was rolling on the floor gripping his tail yelling obscenities.
Goku blinked, "Getea, are you alright?"
Vegeta answered in a tight strangled voice, "You idiot, you slammed my tail in the door" He curled into a tight ball quieting to a whimper; the tail was the most sensitive part of a Saiyan's body and his was just crushed by his idiot best friend.
Goku looked at the splintered door and the hole in the wall across the hall. He sat down on the floor and looked at Vegeta staying powered up so they could see. Vegeta stopped rolling around and looked at the big gaping holes. He blinked as he and Goku looked at each other then both burst with laughter at the same time.
"I think we took care of the undertaker" the Prince said between his laughing.
Goku laughed with him, "I think we took care of this haunted adventure!"
Piccolo was across the street looking at souvenirs with Marron when he heard and felt the blasts followed by several people running out of the building yelling that it was really haunted. "What is going on in there?" he mumbled to himself. "Come on Marron, we need to find out what has happened over there." He scooped the little girl up and walked across to the other side of the street.
Gohan, Mirai, Trunks, and Goten came strolling out of the building wondering what had happened inside as well. Suddenly there was a buildup of Kai and then everyone was running and pushing shouting that the place was really haunted.
Mirai looked around at the building from the outside, "It doesn't look like anything is wrong from out here." He said.
Gohan looked up and saw Piccolo running toward them, "What happened in there?" he asked in a slightly panicked voice.
"We don't know" Mirai said as confused as Piccolo was.
Trunks and Goten started running in circles franticly "Where's dad… where's dad?"
Gohan shouted at them, "Calm down they haven't come out yet" He grabbed Goten by the back of his little orange gi.
Mirai grabbed Trunks by the arm. "Hey quit running in circles, you're just going to make yourself dizzy, kid!"
Piccolo asked if they knew anything about the Kai blast, they shook their heads. Piccolo looked really worried, were they attacked by someone? Then he breathed a sigh of relief as both Goku and Vegeta walked out still laughing at the whole thing.
A man ran up to them and demanded in a very upset way, "You two are going to have to pay for the damages cause to my establishment here!" He pointed at the building behind them.
"It was worth it. Here's a card with all of my information on it. You can send the bill for the repairs to Capsule Corporation." Vegeta said still laughing.
"How do I know I can trust this?" The man shouted waving his fist in the air at them.
"You have no choice but to accept it" Vegeta turned facing the man with a disgusted expression on his face, "And just so you know, this is the stupidest fucking entertainment in this whole screwed up place!" He turned to the rest of their group leaving the man standing there with his jaw open. "Come on kids, let's go eat. I'm so hungry I could eat Kakarot's tail."
They walked into the street "Quick vote" Vegeta said "Who wants hibachi?"
The kids all shouted a yes with happy smiles. "Good, then let's go." They flew up into the air leaving Fun Town behind as the sun was starting to sink low in the sky. Vegeta's stomach was starting to rumble loudly. His tail, a little mashed and slightly throbbing, twitched as his thoughts turned to eating again. It was going to be hard for him to control himself as he ate tonight. He was absolutely starving by now. His mouth watered with thoughts of their favorite hibachi place as they landed in front of it.